Blog Categories and Index Page

Just a brief mention of a new feature I've added here at Philosopher Stone... blog categories.

The software/platform I currently use -- the very popular Blogger -- does not natively support categorization for my blog posts (some platforms do). From the beginning I knew I'd want to have categories available, so that both I and readers could quickly find just the posts in a particular area of interest: economics, baseball, whatever. Not a big deal at first, but now that I've got about 100 posts under my belt, I figure it was about time.

So I either had to switch to a different platform, or create my own solution. Since I've been otherwise happy with Blogger, and switching could introduce some negative side effects, I figured I'd just code my own solution, which has the benefit of being able to design it exactly as I want it.

So you'll notice that over on the right sidebar (for the blog main page and the monthly archive pages) there is a list of 27 category links, grouped into five groupings. Click on any of the categories, and you'll get a page at my website that lists (with dates and links) each of my blog postings in that category. You can also then click each of the categories on that page to quickly browse around the categories.

A few caveats. Some blog posts appear in multiple categories. I'll adjust the categorization scheme as my blog posts warrant it. Also, most but not all of my posts are included in the index. Posts like this one about my blog itself won't be, and a few others aren't so far because I found them hard to categorize. And the index will sometimes be a few days behind the blog itself, but I'll do my best to keep it up to date.